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SHEETCAKERectangular birthday dessert HOTMINUTEPretty long time, in an idiom AUDIOBOOKNovel, we hear, about university detective and bespectacled bachelor – not bad! TRUNCHEONStaff mid-morning meal starting late unfortunately, one behind time RATIONALEProportion and flair backing up the basis of one's argument MAINPOINTBottom LINE of a speech BIRDWATCHWhat some Audubon Society members do with binoculars ... or a hint to 16- and 19-Across? CONVINCEDAssured SAFEHAVENSanctuary MISBEHAVEGet out of LINE UPPERDECKWhere some monster home runs land LIPSCHITZGerman mathematician’s slip up with constant affected variable NOCTURNESNight airs destabilised vessels, we gather